BY JOE CONASON If Harry Reid’s private remarks about the skin tone and speaking style of Barack Obama were offensive, the Republican crusade to oust him from his leadership position is worse. For Republicans to claim that he deserves the punishment inflicted on Trent Lott – the former Republican majority leader forced to resign because of a racial gaffe – shows their bad faith and their misunderstanding of the GOP’s own troubled racial history. What […]
For Reid, Motive Does Matter
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